qún​bǎi

hemline

qún skirt

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
clothes

is a component form of .

Sound component
jūn ruler

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Warring States 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartgjun[g]u[r] skirt

說文解字

《說文》:“帬,下裳也。帬或从衣。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica

bǎi arrange, put Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components

Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

is a component form of .

Sound component
ba, bà cease

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode

the lower part of a garment Traditional

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangpral
pʰrals

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang